Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures


These "Virtual Reality Moon Phases" were created by R. Schmidt from ray-traced images of the Moon. A Clementine spacecraft mosaic of the lunar surface was mapped onto a sphere, and scenes were rendered as a virtual Sun "orbited" the Moon. The depiction of lunar surface features suffers geometric distortion but the terminator is correct with respect to the spherical Moon.

Current Phase of the Moon:
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You can view the phase of the Moon for any date and time [1800-2199 A.D].


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